The association between family care and paid work among women in Germany : does the household economic context matter?
Ulrike Ehrlich
Abstract: Owing to the rapid ageing of societies, studying the labour market consequences of caring for ill, disabled or frail old-age partners, parents and/or other family members (hereafter: ‘family care’) is of urgent concern. Previous research has mainly concentrated on examining the impact of differing family care situations on women’s employment. Building on household decision-making approaches, this study focuses on the moderating role of the household economic situation in the family care–employment relationship among women. Cox shared frailty regression analyses of German Socio-Economic Panel data (SOEP, 2004–2017) indicate that the family care–employment relationship depends not simply on time committed to care but is also stratified by household economic situations: full-time employed, low-intensity caregivers down-scale to part-time hours only in more affluent households; full-time to non-employment transitions are more likely for married, high-intensity caregivers; part-time to non-employment transitions are more likely for high-intensity caregivers contributing marginally to the household income.
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2023
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Authors: | Ehrlichmann, Ulrike |
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Work, employment and society : a journal of the British Sociological Association. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, ISSN 1469-8722, ZDB-ID 2000042-X. - Vol. 37.2023, 1, p. 117-136
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Subject: | employment transitions | event history analysis | family caregiving | household context | women’s labour market participation | Weibliche Arbeitskräfte | Women workers | Deutschland | Germany | Familie | Family | Privater Haushalt | Household | Arbeitsangebot | Labour supply | Familienpflege | Family care | Kinderbetreuung | Child care | Haushaltsökonomik | Household economics | Frauen | Women | Familienökonomik | Family economics | Gleichberechtigung | Gender equality | Erwerbstätigkeit | Employment |
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